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Lion's Blood

by Loretta Casteen

By Steven Barnes

It starts again. The baby begins to This piece is no longer available in the cough and choke. Strange Horizons archive, by request Locked Doors of the author. by Stephanie Burgis You can purchase a copy of the complete work at Amazon.com. 1 January 2007

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You can never let anyone suspect, his mother told him. That was the first rule she taught him, and the last, before she left him here alone with It.

Steven Barnes, the author of fifteen novels and as many teleplays, has been nominated for both the Hugo and Cable Heroic Measures o Contact Ace awards. Mr. Barnes lives in Washington with his wife, author by Matthew Johnson o Awards Tananarive Due, and his daughter. For o Banners more about him, see his Web site; for 18 December 2006 more about the novel, see the Lion's Pale as he was, it was hard to SUPPORT US Blood site. believe he would never rise from o Donate this bed. Even in the darkest Top times, she had never really feared o Bookstore for him; he had always been strong, so strong. o Merchandise o

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